{"id":443981,"date":"2017-06-14T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=443981"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:22:46","slug":"russia-mfa-russian-diplomats-allegedly-recruiting-moldovans-eastern-ukraine-empty-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/russia-mfa-russian-diplomats-allegedly-recruiting-moldovans-eastern-ukraine-empty-chatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia MFA on Russian diplomats allegedly recruiting Moldovans for Eastern Ukraine: empty chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Grigory Karasin, <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/world\/20170613\/1496398577.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> &#8220;empty chatter&#8221; the press reports of recruiting of fighters from Gagauzia conducted by the five Russian diplomats, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/five-russian-diplomats-declared-persona-non-grata-moldova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled on May 29th<\/a> by Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>In a short comment for RIA Novosti, Karasin declared that the claims, reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/reuters-russian-diplomats-expelled-moldova-recruited-fighters-eastern-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, are not supported by any facts.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is empty chatter. The people were fulfilling absolutely understandable work responsibilities, participating in two-party contacts on military level(&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is made to push the informational wave. Especially that there is a complicated internal situation in Moldova and there is a battle of political forces&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>stated the Russian diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 May 2017, five diplomats representing the Russian Federation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/five-russian-diplomats-declared-persona-non-grata-moldova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were declared<\/a> personae non-gratae in the Republic of Moldova.\u00a0As a custom, the reason of expulsion was not made public.<\/p>\n<p>On June 13th, Reuters reported that\u00a0the five employees of the Russian Embassy in Chi\u0219in\u0103u were suspected of spying as undercover officers with the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU. The spies were allegedly recruiting fighters from Gagauzia, the autonomy in southern Moldova, for paramilitary training in Rostov region of Russia and then for fighting in Eastern regions of Ukraine since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Grigory Karasin, called &#8220;empty chatter&#8221; the press reports of recruiting of fighters from Gagauzia conducted by the five Russian diplomats, expelled on May 29th by Moldova. In a short comment for RIA Novosti, Karasin declared that the claims, reported by Reuters, are not supported by any facts. &#8220;This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":443902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world-news"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Grigory Karasin, <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/world\/20170613\/1496398577.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> &#8220;empty chatter&#8221; the press reports of recruiting of fighters from Gagauzia conducted by the five Russian diplomats, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/five-russian-diplomats-declared-persona-non-grata-moldova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled on May 29th<\/a> by Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>In a short comment for RIA Novosti, Karasin declared that the claims, reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/reuters-russian-diplomats-expelled-moldova-recruited-fighters-eastern-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, are not supported by any facts.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is empty chatter. The people were fulfilling absolutely understandable work responsibilities, participating in two-party contacts on military level(&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is made to push the informational wave. Especially that there is a complicated internal situation in Moldova and there is a battle of political forces&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>stated the Russian diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 May 2017, five diplomats representing the Russian Federation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/five-russian-diplomats-declared-persona-non-grata-moldova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were declared<\/a> personae non-gratae in the Republic of Moldova.\u00a0As a custom, the reason of expulsion was not made public.<\/p>\n<p>On June 13th, Reuters reported that\u00a0the five employees of the Russian Embassy in Chi\u0219in\u0103u were suspected of spying as undercover officers with the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU. 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